Stupid things religious people say

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I remember reading this book as a kid since someone bought it at the airport or somewhere to get rid of pesky Hare Krishna.



And let me tell you, scientists are wrong. This guy A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada saw through the mainstream modern establishment. Here is the description of the book

Life Comes From Life is a brilliant critique of some of the dominant policies, theories and presuppositions of modern science and scientists by one of the greatest philosophers and scholars of the century.

Notice the words "brilliant critique"

Like, here is some of that brilliant critique:

Śrīla Prabhupāda. Even on the sun and moon there are living entities. What is the opinion of the scientists?

Dr. Singh. They say there is no life there.
Śrīla Prabhupāda. That is nonsense. There is life there.

Dr. Singh. They say that there is no life on the moon because they did not find any there.

Śrīla Prabhupāda. Why do they believe that? The moon planet is covered with dust, but within that dust the living entities can live. Every atmosphere is suitable for life—any atmosphere. Therefore the Vedas describe the living entities as sarva-gataḥ, which means “existing in all circumstances.” The living entity is not material. Although encaged in a material body, he is not material. But when we speak of different atmospheres, we refer to different material conditions.

Karandhara. They say that the moon’s atmosphere is unsuitable for life, but all they can legitimately say is that it is unsuitable for life as they know it.

Śrīla Prabhupāda. The Vedas say that the living entity has no connection with material things. He cannot be burned, cut, dried up or moistened. This is discussed in Bhagavad-gītā.

Dr. Singh. Scientists extend their knowledge about life on this planet, thinking that it must apply to life on other planets also.

Śrīla Prabhupāda. Yes. They are thinking foremost of their own selves. They are thinking limitedly, in terms of their own circumstances. This is what we call “Dr. Frog’s philosophy.

[Laughter.]

Once there was a frog in a well, and when a friend informed him of the existence of the Atlantic Ocean, he asked the friend, “Oh, what is this Atlantic Ocean?”
“It is a vast body of water,” his friend replied.

“How vast? Is it twice the size of this well?”

“Oh, no—much, much larger,” his friend replied.

“How much larger? Ten times the size?” In this way, the frog went on calculating. But what is the possibility or ever understanding the vastness of the great ocean in this way? Our faculties, our experience, and our powers of speculation are always limited. The speculations of the scientists only give rise to such frog philosophy.

Śrīla Prabhupāda. Even if, as on the sun, there is apparently no water, still there are living entities there. How does a cactus grow in the desert, apparently without water?